Dear Paul, Depending on how you want to create them, qemu-img tool might be what you're looking for. It can create empty vmdk disk images: qemu-img create -f vmdk ... Cheers, On 04/01/2015 06:25 PM, Paul Apostolescu wrote: > I want to create a virtual machine from scratch in ESX but I can't figure > out how to create the disks - the vmdk files. Any hints on how that can be > done or even if it's possible at all ? > > Thanks > > > > _______________________________________________ > libvirt-users mailing list > libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users > -- Pierre Schweitzer <pierre(a)reactos.org&gt; System & Network Administrator Senior Kernel Developer ReactOS Deutschland e.V.

On 04/01/2015 07:25 PM, Paul Apostolescu wrote: > I want to create a virtual machine from scratch in ESX May be https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere/content?filterID= contentstatus[published]~objecttype~objecttype[thread] _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users

2015-04-01 18:25 GMT+02:00 Paul Apostolescu <apbogdan(a)gmail.com&gt;: > I want to create a virtual machine from scratch in ESX but I can't figure > out how to create the disks - the vmdk files. Any hints on how that can be > done or even if it's possible at all ? You can use the following virsh command: vol-create-as --pool ds --name test/disk.vmdk --capacity 10737418240 This will create a 10 GB VMDK image named test/disk.vmdk in the datastore ds. You need to replace ds with the actual name of a datastore on your ESX server. You can get a list of the available datastores with the virsh command pool-list. -- Matthias Bolte http://photron.blogspot.com